I generally only go for trades myself. I get frustrated reading part of the story and then having to wait a month. I'd rather wait months inbetween each arc so I can read it all at once. Although the new X-Factor has started me buying comics on a monthly basis again and I fear it may spill over into other titles as well.

Plus, one of my best friends reads tons of books and he buys them monthly. So when I have a weak moment in willpower and I just have to know what happens next ASAP I turn to him.

I generally read:
anything in the Ultimate Marvel universe
anything X-Men
anything Star Wars
Y: The Last Man
most of the Decimation stuff
Walking Dead

I'm also a trade reader -- that way I only have to think about one release date, rather than a monthly release that may or may not happen. (Case in point: Ultimates2, which I had been getting in singles, but am now back to waiting for the trade, since Marvel can barely get it published even bi-monthly any more. As usual, sad to say.)

The only title I'm getting in singles is Rex Libris, from Slave Labor Graphics, which is supposedly about the secret world of librarians. (Being a librarian myself, I find it highly amusing.) This may sound boring, but Rex and the Middletown library staff get to travel through space to retrieve overdue library books, deal with literary characters who come to life, and have a boss who's an ex-Egyptian god. Plus, they all get combat training. No, really.

Then I moved to a town that didn't have a comic book store (for like four years but one recently moved in just down the street from me) and I had to give it up. Plus it was getting really expensive. Now I mostly buy the Star Wars TPBs. I'm also thinking about picking up the SW Legacy comics as they come out.

Book elitist, more specifically. I'm not too conversant with comics. Not a viable option for Aussies and its high costs. Imports are cheaper, but in bulk and not that Voltron guy. I'm specialising in Star Wars comics, aside from one Song of Ice and Fire one.

I'll also automatically reject anything polluted with dwarfs, elfs, dragons and other dispicable fantasy cliches. Farmboy studs and super swords are a second category of disapproval, but not completely enough to dismiss. I have read dragons, but they are very background in the Malazan series. Truthfully, if a kingdom's emblem is even dragon, the author has lost instant business with me. It tells me for even such a minor thing you can't show something different, new.